Nitrates are good lmao

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Joshuakahan said:
From what I’ve got, he thinks his way is the only way regardless of style of tank, he tried to say his way would work for my rift tank
Yes , if you’re into planted tanks, it could work, but telling people to go get dirt from a local pond or run off ditch is dumb
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Dirt works I personally wouldn't go to a pond to get it. But many people have gotten dirt from their yard and it works. I'd go to home depot and buy organic dirt to be safe. I'm sure pond dirt works too if u sanitize it. Dirt is cheap so it's a good way to save money. Buying plant substrates gets expensive fast especially if u got a big tank. But everyone has their own ways beliefs and thinking. He must be doing something right with the amount of followers

I kno nothing about rift tanks so I cannot agree or disagree
 
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altums85 said:
Dirt works I personally wouldn't go to a pond to get it. But many people have gotten dirt from their yard and it works. I'd go to home depot and buy organic dirt to be safe. I'm sure pond dirt works too if u sanitize it. Dirt is cheap so it's a good way to save money. Buying plant substrates gets expensive fast especially if u got a big tank. But everyone has their own ways beliefs and thinking. He must be doing something right with the amount of followers

I kno nothing about rift tanks so I cannot agree or disagree
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I don’t have a problem with dirt, but he specifically says to get it from a pond or ditch for the microbes, he argued with me when I said that’s dangerous
 
I had a lightly stocked 15g hex tank with a surface carpet of salvinia, and nitrates on that tank were always at 0ppm.

I still did the odd small water change just to freshen things up, but resisted doing larger water changes because I knew my salvinia benefitted from the nitrate, which they obviously loved because there was never any measureable nitrate detectable.

I think the "catch words" here are "lightly stocked and planted". His claim maybe wouldn't seem as daft then if he'd categorically stress that, but he doesn't.

This guy just seems to think that everybody has dirted, planted lightly stocked tanks, such as his own, and that his claims apply to everyone.

It emphasizes, yet again, that there is no one way, one size fits all approach to this hobby.

This old dude should realise that before he ends up wiping his adoring fans tanks out with his claims of this, that and the other.
 
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Just have to say number of followers does not equate to doing something right. Not arguing the rest that nitrates benefit plants, and there's all different types of tank ecosystem and what works in one doesn't work in others etc, but in this age of social media and online personalities it's important to remember that views, likes, subscribers etc does not equal validation of information.
 
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Next he'll be telling us to pipe our toilets directly into our tanks.

The few videos I've seen of this dude seem to follow the same pattern. First he seems to reach some sort of epiphany that has taken 80 years for some reason like "plants need nutrients!" and then he proceeds to dive headfirst into the deepest section of that kiddie pool.
 
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One of my rules is there are different ways to do things, no single, cosmic secret. I've watched a couple of his videos and can allow that what he does works for him, but he lost me long ago by making it sound like he has the secret to fishkeeping, that his is THE way to do it, and by dishing up his own gumbo of personal opinion and cherry picked 'facts'. For one thing what he's doing isn't new, just his take on "dirted," low maintenance tanks, which have been around forever and include the "Walstad method" and earlier 19th century concepts of creating a natural ecosystem, before there was powered filtration. Imo the whole "father fish" thing is half grandiloquence and half marketing malarkey for the sake of his youtube channel.

Father fish is some eccentric old guy who once owned a shop and wants you to think he has a cosmic secret. Diana Walstad is an author with a microbiology and research background, besides other credentials, who explains the science in easy to understand terms without the labored, rustic philosophy. One is a waste of my time, the other is worth reading to understand aquarium ecology, even if you don't intend doing a dirted tank.

...my opinion
 
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